STANTON(ST-JOHN'S), a parish in the hundred
of BULLINGTON, county of OXFORD, 4 miles (N. E. by E.)
from Oxford, containing 468 inhabitants. The living is
a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford,
rated in the king's books at £ 16. 9. 4., and in the
patronage of the Warden and Fellows of New College,
Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. John the
Baptist. Lady Elizabeth Holford, in 1717, gave £500
in support of a charity school for the children of this
parish and that of Forest Hill: this bequest, having
accumulated to £1550 Old South Sea annuities, produces
an annual dividend of about £46. 10., which is
applied for teaching fifty children, in a school-house
erected in 1767.